Spine Injuries

Injury to the lung, major vessels and abdominal viscera can also occur during exposure. Dural tears can also occur during neural decompression. If the dural tear does not seal on its own by conservative management, an additional procedure might be required to stop the cerebrospinal fluid leak.

Pseudarthrosis can also occur and may lead to progressive deformity, pain and compromise of the neural elements. Dislodgement and breakage of the hardware is usually associated with pseudarthrosis and is expected to occur in 20% of cases in the first 10 post-operative years.

The term vaginitis is one that is applied to any inflammation or infection of the vagina, and there are many different conditions that are categorized together under this ‘broad’ heading, including bacterial vaginosis, trichomoniasis and non-infectious vaginitis.